The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1887-04-01
REVIEW OF THE WEEK.
NEW WORLD.

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FIGHTING LIKE BEASTS FOR FOOD.
The French steamer Scotia, Captain Ruila
which was eleven days overdue went ashol
twelve miles off Fire Island at Blue Point ST.
ton during the terrific storm OF Friday morr
ing. She left Marscies Feb 20, and had o
board nearly thousand passengers, mostl
Italian cmigrants. All Of the passengers wei
safely landed Saturday. Great distress pre-
vailed among the emgrants during the passag,
and pitiful stories OF starvation were tolc
From the eth to the 2Sth day they did nc
have piece of meat to eat. When rescue
they tonight like wild beasts for the provision
which were brought to them. The work c
unloading tho wrecked steamer, Is being rap
idly pushed As soon as the work is iinishe'
an attempt will be made to get the Scotia OF
the sand bar. The hull is not much injure'
and it is expected the steamer will be fioate
Monday or Tuesday. Most OF the passenger
assert that there was great negligence on tn
part of Capt Ruilat and bis officers.
THREE RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.
Last Thursday freight train went through
bridge nine miles from Liberty, Va. Eight o
nine workmen were kilIed.-A passenger trail
| on the Baltimore & Philadelphia railroad col
Hded with n through freight at Leslie, Md
Thursday morning. Both trains were badly
wrecked, and the locomotives entirely telescop
ed A fireman was fatally injured and severa
| others hurt.-On Thursday evening two pasSen
ger trains on tho Pan handle road, when nea
Hogenbach station, Ohio, came together with s
| terrible crash, and smashed both trains M
one was injured
| TERRIBLE SUFFERING OF TWO sTowAwAYS.
Pat Gunnan, 10 years old and Mat Turney
! aged II, two stowaways, were found in the
hold of the steamer Kansas which arrived at
Boston Friday, IA days from Liverpool, The
h.tches were fastened down and covered with
freight. All the food that the two young men
were able to obtain was particles of wheat TAX
en- from the cracks in the steamer and oil the
water they could get was that furnished by the
sweat OF the steamer. The two men are in a
very critical condition.
CHICAGO's FIFTY BooDLERs.
There is CONSERVATION among the members
OF the Cook county, III, combine" The Head
Centre is said to have turned informer. Adam
Ochs and Daniel Wren, prominent Chicago of
fciaIs have been taken into custody, and nearly
80 true bills have been found by The Cook
county grand jury against the corrupt officials
OF the county. Overwhelming evidence is said
to be at hand which will secure speedy convic.
ton. SH
NEW YORK SCANDAL.
The disappearance of Agnes Folsom, the OPP
era Slu2eT NJ ZIG NSW 1OIk Sh5IHO, Idst ldll 10
accounted for by a shocking story told bv her
father, a Boston merchant. He has app led TO
the courts for writ OF habeas corpus TO con-
pei the production OF bis daughter, charging
that she is insane and has been spirited away
and kept in an illicit relationship by DR. Cate,
who made her acquaintance as tie physician
THE BUFFALO HORROR.
Several others who werein the Inflated Rich
mond hotel, which burned up last week, have
been accounted for. There is no longer any
doubt that Robert Boyd OF Boston, special
agent of the American Bell telephone company
persisted. Three moro Of the injured ones have
died. Mrs w ] Mann, wife Of one OF the hotel
Jacob Kahen of NV York, and |
Edward WhaIen of Newbury, N Y. ee &
A RAILROAD PRESIDENT HANGS HIMSELF.
William Bartlett OF Clinton, N Y, a we'll
known resident hanged himself Tuesday after
noon while insane He was ono OF the Rapub
lean electors in 1854, was president OF the n,n,v
I Clinton railroad and was largely interested
n various manufacturing and financial inter
SITS.
GOOD TEMpLARs OF THE WORLD
The Good Templars Of the world will hold a
MITIGATION conference at Saratoga Springs May
/. The question OF admitting colored persons
0 the order separated tho English and Ameri
an lodges in 1875 The Saratoga meeting Is
Intended TO amicably adjust the matter.
A PHILADELPHIA SENSATION.
. The greatest sensation Pniladelphia's bust
Tess circles has had for years is the downfall
md flight OF James Hunter, venerable manu-
acturer. The assets of the wrecked firm are
stimated at $4S3 600 and his associate partner,
Iohn Hunter, will be ruined.
NEW Jerseys LATE>T HORROR.
A horrible crime has just been discovered in
New Jersey. The body Of an unknown woman I
vas found Saturday morning, on tine outskirts
ii Railway. Her throat had been cut from ear
o ear.
LOST WITH TWO HUNDRED MEN ON BOARD.
A st Johns, IN FL special to the Boston
Journal says that the steamer Eagle Is report
d lost with 200 men. No particulars are
IEown.
Ex- Com mi saioner r ,llin NJ SqIiro Will
robably be placed on trial a. New York Mon
ay. h3'@
Edward Blake, leader OF the Liberal party in
,anada has resigned that prsitisn on account
f ill-heal!h.
At s O'Clock this Friday morning, Herr John
lost, editor, anarchist and general disturber,
,as discharged from Black wells island, his
,rm OF Imprisonment having expired.
Arthur Sullivan, who robbed st Stephens
hurcb has been held at New York for trial.
ather Cotton who made the complaint against
ulvsp, fixed the value OF the stolen property
800.
Amos Johnson, colored, aged 49, was hanged
'riday afternoon at Marion, Crittenden county.
Tx, for outraging little white child only
light years old. He was convicted by q jury
{ bis own color. He confessed on the scaffod.
Friday nigh. had two big fires. At B'ns-
anton, n Y, w S Reed 4 planning mill and
I'm Der yard went up in smoke, causing loss
$ll0, COO. At Trenton, j, John Taylor q
o's pork packing establishment burned up,
nd the loss is sumo $780, 900.
She sat on the piano stool with her hands
lightly clasped looking tragic and miserable
be could not sing note. l gently suggested |
)r Bulls Cough Syrup. The next day she was
ingine and uiling like the first birds OF Spring
eEsible girl.-adv.
Two freight trains ran into each other on the
Few Jersey Central railroad near Rockport.
e., Saturday morning. William Dunlap, a
renan, was killed, Nathan Belford, er g,neer,
adly scalded, and Howard Depart, engineer,
eriously injured. Both locomotives were
'recked and over 20 ears destroyed.
John G Rovefo 81, who was watching with
sick negro named Henry Jackson at Provi-
ence Friday, was pounded 10 death by Ed
Yard Turner. the SICK mans drunken nephew
'urner was arrsi tned and bis case was contin |
ed till April >. Rovelto was a Malay who
,as kidnapped by an Americ IN vessel in his
ouih, ard leaves wife and 10 children.
A squad ct policemen INVADED st Stephens
burch at New York Sunday, Just after high |
iass had been sail and he large congregation
,erc passing out OF the church. They tore down
be decorations about the confessional recently |
coupled by Father Me Giynn. The faded h1~-
re- and drapsries were carried home by the
arishioners as rnementces.
The members of the firm OF Elmins'on g.
ysddell, dealers in carriages and eg,icultu-
al implements at New York, along with tfeir
onfident;al clerk, Miss Howard and all their
ooks, have disappeared, leaving liabilities es
mated at 100000. The firm were supposed
D be doing wei. until about month ago, when